Clayton County Public Schools Superintendent Edmond Heatley's plan to reduce the district's expenses by $84 million over the next two years was approved -- in a close vote -- by the county's board of education on Tuesday.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport celebrated the "topping out" of the 1.2-million-square-foot Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., International Terminal on Tuesday, with City of Atlanta officials and local leaders on hand.

In anticipation of a possible wave of new business opportunity upon the completion of the Riverdale Promenade, the Riverdale City Council voted this week to create the position of a city planning and zoning director.

For several years, the Spring 2010 Mega Yard Sale, hosted by the Clayton County Humane Society, has been its most important fund-raiser. The activities of the no-kill animal shelter are largely supported by money the agency gets from fund-raisers it holds in the spring and fall.

When Republicans warn that a policy is a job-killer, Americans should listen. If any group of lawmakers and thinkers know about killing jobs, it's the Grand Old Party. In 2008, the final year of the Bush Administration, after two terms of careless deregulation implemented with bastardized pseudo-free market battle cries, the economy lost 2.6 million jobs. An annual job loss not equaled since 1945. When it comes to job extermination, the GOP's display case has a full assortment of trophies. So, of course, Republicans are now the best authority on how not to kill jobs. Basically, don't do what they did.

In an effort to increase cooperation among city and county officials during emergencies, the Henry County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) held a Crisis Training and Decision-Making Workshop last week, at Heritage Park in McDonough.

One of the bigger obstacles to the U.S. economy gaining substantial numbers of jobs is the battle over valuation of currency among different nations. The amount a currency is valued at is largely tied to the strength of their economy, but it's possible for individual countries to manipulate the pricing in either direction so that they can gain an advantage on the international markets when exporting their own goods and services.

"The most pivotal scene in our nation's recent civil rights history ... in fact, the self-proclaimed Tea Party protesters hurling racial epithets at members of Congress," is how a recent column (Tina Dupuy's) in your paper begins. Except, that there were no racial epithets hurled.

For several years, the Spring 2010 Mega Yard Sale, hosted by the Clayton County Humane Society, has been its most important fund-raiser. The activities of the no-kill animal shelter are largely supported by money the agency gets from fund-raisers it holds in the spring and fall.